Swiss singer Nemo has won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest with The Code, an operatic pop-rap ode to the singer’s journey toward embracing their nongender identity.
Nemo beat Croatia’s Baby Lasagna to the title by winning the most points from a combination of national juries and viewers around the world.Switzerland has won Eurovision with The Code by singer Nemo. “Thank you so much,” Nemo said after the result was announced.
Nemo bested finalists from 24 other countries, who all performed in front of a live audience of thousands and an estimated 180 million viewers around the world. After German balladeer Isaak and Luxembourg chanteuse Tali, Israeli singer Eden Golan took the stage to a wall of sound — boos mixed with cheers — to perform the power balladGolan shot up the odds table through the week, despite the protests that her appearance has drawn and ended in fifth place.— an apparent reference to the October 7 Hamas attack that killed about 1200 people in Israel and triggered the war in Gaza.
Contenders also included the goofy 1990s nostalgia of Finland’s Windows95man, who emerged from a giant onstage egg wearing very little clothing. Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched for the second time in a week on Saturday through Sweden’s third-largest city, which has a large Muslim population, to demand a boycott of Israel and a cease-fire in the seven-month Gaza war that has killed almost 35,000 Palestinians, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.
The 26-year-old Dutch singer and rapper had been a favourite of both bookmakers and fans with his songDutch broadcaster AVROTROS, one of dozens of public broadcasters that collectively fund and broadcast the contest, said that as Klein came offstage after Thursday’s semifinal, he was filmed without his consent and in turn made a “threatening movement” toward the camera.
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